Echo Vascular Technician

Job Summary

Required Qualifications

• •ARDMS or CCI certification in cardiac or vascular sonography
• •Basic Life Support Certification (BLS) for healthcare providers
• •Must demonstrate technical competence for performance protocols specific to the department
• •Sonography Proficiency
• •Digital Proficiency
• •Clinical Care Skills
• •Time Management
• •Risk Management
• •Healthcare Language Fluency
• •Patient Instructional Skills
• •Healthcare Professional Development
• •Instructional Design and Delivery
• •Quality Assurance
• •Competency
• •Prioritize and schedule exams
• •Coordinate exams with medical staff, physician offices, other caregivers and patients
• •Prepare for the exam by following patient identification processes
• •Educating patient and family on procedure
• •Transporting the patient
• •Perform ultrasound exams consistent with related protocols
• •Ensure patient safety and comfort
• •Achieve quality outcomes
• •Identify patient needs
• •Communicate and coordinate patient care with physicians, other caregivers, patient, and family
• •Return patient to room
• •Ensure patient stability and safety
• •Mentor caregivers and students on basic equipment use and procedural technique
• •Appropriately document exam results and other needed information
• •Apply appropriate charge codes for exams and supplies
• •Clean and maintain equipment, work area, and stock supplies
• •Follow appropriate channels to coordinate repair or supply needs
• •Support team and quality improvement processes and initiatives
• •Participate in educational opportunities to ensure clinical competence
• •Develop additional skills and knowledge
• •Provide education for other caregivers, fellows, and students as appropriate
• •Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies
• •Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately
• •Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy
• •Frequent computer use and typing for documenting patient care, accessing needed information, medication preparation, etc
• •Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients
• •Bend to retrieve, lift, and carry supplies and equipment
• •Items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items
• •Walk and assist with transporting/ambulating patients
• •Obtaining and distributing supplies and equipment
• •Pushing/pulling gurneys and portable equipment, including heavy items
• •Navigate crowded and busy rooms
• •May be expected to stand in a stationary position for an extended period of time
• •Expected to drive a vehicle which requires sitting, seeing and reading signs, traffic signals, and other vehicles
• •Full-time (40 Hours)
• •Variable
• •10-hour days (4/10's)
• •rotating Saturdays
• •call

Desired Qualifications

• •Bachelor's Degree
• •Education must be obtained from an accredited institution
• •Degree will be verified
• •1+ year of experience